About Nina
Nina Lupo is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of clinical experience in Washington. She works with adults and young adults who feel overwhelmed by stress, ADHD, relationship struggles, grief, or changes in life. Her manner is direct and compassionate, and she aims to help people find practical ways forward.
She uses a person-centered stance that keeps the client's goals at the center of the work. Nina also draws on solution-focused strategies to develop short-term tools, and she blends those with deeper relational work when needed.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and geared toward skills people can use between appointments. Nina's background includes time in nonprofit settings, independent practice, and education. She studied psychology at the University of Washington and completed graduate work in clinical psychology at Pepperdine University with an emphasis in marriage, family, and child therapy.
Early in her training she worked with research on couple relationships, which influences her approach to intimacy and communication challenges. In therapy she listens for patterns that cause pain and then offers straightforward techniques to change them. She supports people through trauma, parenting stress, career transitions, and mood concerns.
Nina will also coach clients who want concrete steps toward goals such as improving communication, reducing panic, or building self-esteem. Her style balances practical tools and reflective work. Clients can expect a therapist who invests time in their process and adapts the pace to match short-term problem solving or longer-term healing.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening without judgment and following the client's lead to build trust and clarity. It helps people who want a collaborative space to sort feelings, set priorities, and decide what change should look like for them.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) offers clear steps to identify unhelpful thoughts and shift behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, mood challenges, panic, and for people who want homework-style exercises to practice between sessions.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) targets patterns in close relationships and helps partners or individuals understand emotional needs and create new ways of connecting. This approach can help when intimacy, attachment, or communication are causing distress.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Nina will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and daily life to pick methods that fit. She often blends approaches so work can be brief and solution-oriented or longer and relational depending on what the person needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let therapists observe nonverbal cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text can suit quick check-ins or times when writing helps, and the mix allows scheduling around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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